Yum Package Remove Order

[Panu Matilainen]

On 12/02/2012 03:46 AM, Mark Bidewell wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com>wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 17:24 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>>> Le Ven 30 novembre 2012 15:11, Mark Bidewell a écrit :
>>>> I have been working on packaging software into RPMs for my company.
>>   These
>>>> RPMs create directories in %post into which dependent RPMs install
>>>> components.
>>>
>>> You need to create those directories in %install and have your package
>> own
>>> them in %files, and have dependant rpms depend on your package then
>>> everything will work fine
>>
>> Or for bonus points, the app itself ought to create the directories in
>> the first place, if they're associated with the app. Packages should
>> only create directories for stuff that's added as part of the package,
>> not part of the software per se - say, you're including a convenience
>> script which is not upstream, or moving the icons around, or something.
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>
> Here is the setup we have.
> 1) An RPM which creates a raw JBoss install
> 2) An RPM which sets up a specialized server config (based on the default
> config from 1) with common configuration
> 3) RPMs containing WARs (and configuration).
>
> The reason we encounter the CentOS 5 bug is that the when the RPM in 2
> uninstalls, it removes the server config and with it the WARs from 3.  Is
> there a better way?

The ancient rpm on CentOS 5 doesn't know how to order erasures, no 
amount of fiddling with dependencies can cure that. This also has little 
to do with Fedora development...

	- Panu -